Checking Florida Arrest Records Online

By Claire Dowell


Quality assurance is a long-standing concept existing in most companies and work institutions. There are many procedures that are undergone just to ensure it. One of the measures resorted is to closely examine a candidate for employment's history to ensure that any form of liabilities can be avoided and averted. Candidates are typically required to present copies of their criminal or arrest records in order to fulfill this demand.

What makes the aforementioned measures benefit so much from criminal records is because a person's records of arrest shows a compilation of his or her past dealings with the Law that includes minor infractions, misdemeanor charges, and grave felonies. Criminal records are also useful for examining the background of applicants for public office, volunteer welfare workers and professional licenses.

Various approaches are adapted in each state with regards to the updating, maintenance and public access to documents such as criminal records. In the State of Florida, the agency tapped to perform such tasks is the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services. The said department is a centralized repository for all Florida arrest records.

There are two means as to how one can procure a copy of a person's criminal records. The first method involves the sending of a Criminal History Information Request Form via mail to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. These are available for download from the department's official website. The request must contain essential details such as the person's full name, aliases, the date of birth, age, race sex, and if available, the current residential address and Social Security Number. Once completed, the following requirements must be sent to office of the Department of Law Enforcement, together with the imposed payment of $24.00 that must come in the form of a check or money order payable. Roughly five business days is the estimated turnaround time per request, not including the postal delivery time.

Florida arrest records are also available online from the database of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It is a self-service application that requires as much information you can provide in order to yield more precise results, and make the decision of whether or not the information you are pursuing matches with what is displayed in the Computerized Criminal History file. The advantage of this approach is that you can immediately print out results after positively identifying them. However, certain types of criminal records such as certified copies, sealed information, expunged records and records of juvenile crimes are not available in this search application.

In the event that the record you are searching for is not found, your request will be returned and is stamped with the statement, "FDLE found NO Florida criminal history based on the information provided. No criminal record check was conducted for other states or for the FBI." Furthermore, processing fees for requests are non-refundable. For more accurate results, you can also send the fingerprint card of the person, if they are available.

Over the years, the Internet has gained much favor as a premiere bearer of goods and services. Because online search for public records has become one of the most popular search activities done via the Internet, approaches such as the ones developed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and other service providers that offer such, are commonly flocked by requesting parties who want results at the fastest possible time. These modern innovations have saved countless amounts of time, money and exertion, and have helped a lot of end-users accomplish their various intentions.




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